Please note that DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 21STAPRIL 2006.

The organisers of the following conference are delighted to informprospective attendees that a publisher has expressed an interest inreleasing a collection of edited essays or proceedings from theFashioning Fiction conference. We also have organised a celidh in TheQueen's Hotel: http://www.queenshotelscotland.com/ . For furtherinformation visit www.fashioningfiction.stir.ac.uk .

Existing NeMLA members are eligible to propose panels for the 2007Conference that will be held in Baltimore, MD. Non-members can stilljoin, though at a higher rate (seehttp://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=99283). To propose a panel,you need:

Once approved, you will have until Sept. 15, 2006 to collect abstracts.Full panel info. would then be submitted to Elizabeth Abele, the newExecutive Director, by Oct. 1, 2006. Her e-mail isNortheast.MLA_at_gmail.org.

all For Papers: 7th Annual UC Irvine-UC Santa Barbara Graduate StudentConference in French and Francophone StudiesDates: May 12-14, 2006Location: University of California at Santa BarbaraPlenary Speaker: Dr. Margaret Cohen, Professor of French andComparative Literature, Stanford University. Dr. Cohen is Andrew B.Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization; andthe Director of the Center for the Study of the Novel

Graduate Student Conference:The New School for Social ResearchCFP: What Remains: Living Through Ruins, Thinking Through Empire(grad) (3/31/06; 5/11/06-5/12/06)

"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stonyrubbish?" ~ T.S. Eliot, 'The Wasteland'

Call for Papers

We are soliciting papers from graduate students in anthropology,history, geography, literature, sociology, and other relevantdisciplines related to our focus on empire and ruins. The deadline forsubmission of abstracts is March 31, 2006. For more information,questions or submissions, please e-mail David Bond or Joseph DeStefanoat: RuinsConference2006_at_gmail.com

UPDATED INFORMATION:The organisers of the following conference are delighted to informprospective attendees that a publisher has expressed an interest inreleasing a collection of edited essays or proceedings from theFashioning Fiction conference. We also have organised a celidh in TheQueen's Hotel: http://www.queenshotelscotland.com/ . Please rememberthat the closing date for abstracts is 10th March (deadline may beextended). For further information visitwww.fashioningfiction.stir.ac.uk .

The Associated Graduate Students in English (AGSE) at California State University, Northridge will hold its annual graduate student conference on Saturday, April 22nd, 2006 in Jerome Richfield Hall Room 319.

This year's conference title is "Coloring Outside the Lines: Blurring Borders.â€ We are looking for papers that explore the theme of borders and their incarnations and transformations including, but not limited to: border crossings, blurrings, violations, tensions, disruptions, transgressions, transactions and/or dissolutions.